2003 Summary of Year 12 Enrolment and Certification

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2003 Summary of Year 12 Enrolment and Certification

Background

Each year the Queensland Studies Authority (QSA) issues Student Education Profiles (SEPs) to students who complete Year 12 in Queensland. The SEP may contain a Senior Certificate or it may contain a Senior Certificate and a Tertiary Entrance (TE) Statement. Schools approved by the Queensland Minister for Education that offer Authority subjects and/or Authority-registered subjects and agree to comply with the QSA’s procedures may have Senior Certificates issued to their students at the completion of Year 12.

• All students who complete Year 12 with at least one result in an Authority subject, Authority-registered subject, or Recorded subject, receive a Senior Certificate.

The Senior Certificate also reports the details of accredited vocational education and training (VET) and grades in the Queensland Core Skills (QCS) Test.

• A student is eligible for an Overall Position (OP) at the end of Year 12 provided that they have completed a minimum of 20 semester units of Authority subjects (including at least three subjects for all four semesters) and has sat for the QCS Test in that year. OP-eligible students receive a TE Statement reporting overall achievement on a ranking from OP1 (highest) to OP25 (lowest) and achievements in a maximum of five fields ranked from FP1 (highest) to FP10 (lowest) each.

Enrolment and certification statistics in this publication relate to internal students and to candidates for the Senior External Examination. Internal students are those who enrol to study full-time in an approved secondary school, where the minimum amount of timetabled school time provided for is 55 hours per semester per senior Authority or Authority-registered subject studied.

Student Education Profiles (SEP)

In December 2003, the QSA issued 38 721 SEPs (excluding visa students¹); 27 973 of these contained Tertiary Entrance Statements for Year 12 students who were

OP-eligible, as well as the Senior Certificates included in all SEPs. SEPs were issued to 664 visa students including 573 Tertiary Entrance Statements for students who were equivalent OP-eligible.

1A visa student is a student who is not a citizen or permanent resident of Australia. Visa students are not regarded as OP-eligible. They may qualify for an equivalent-OP.

2In table 1, visa students are included in school totals.

Table 1: SEPs Issued

Gender 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

Goverment² Male 10681 11324 11291 11551 11403

Female 11981 12430 12123 12471 12250 All 22662 23754 23414 24022 23653 Non-Government(Catholic)² Male 3669 3862 3863 3894 3937

Female 3766 3895 3907 3874 3980

All 7435 7757 7770 7768 7917

Non-Government(Other)² Male 3400 3498 3550 3710 3899

Female 3535 3720 3707 3830 3916

All 6935 7218 7257 7540 7815

All schools² Male 17750 18684 18704 19155 19239

Female 19282 20045 19737 20175 20146 All 37032 38729 38441 39330 39385 OP-eligible

(All schools) Male 12061 12332 12224 12406 12655

Female 15176 15507 15079 15343 15318 All 27237 27839 27303 27749 27973 OP-ineligible

(All schools) Male 5348 6062 6139 6474 6231

Female 3828 4310 4395 4597 4517

All 9176 10372 10534 11071 10748

Equivalent OP-eligible

(Visa students) Male 282 258 287 240 314

Female 231 196 222 183 259

All 513 454 509 423 573

Equivalent OP-ineligible

(Visa students) Male 59 32 54 35 39

Female 47 32 41 52 52

All 106 64 95 87 91

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2003 Summary of Year 12 Enrolment and Certification

External Examinations

Senior External Examinations are conducted by the QSA for the purpose of issuing Senior Certificates to people undertaking Year 12 studies other than by full-time schooling. These include ’mature-age’ students and those who are geographically isolated.

Nomination statistics for Senior External Examinations include everyone who nominated to sit for them. Some withdrew before the examination or failed to attend.

Some Year 12 students, for good and sufficient reasons, may receive permission to nominate and sit for Senior External Examinations. Such students may be assessed in no more than two subjects externally.

Nineteen subjects were offered as 2003 Senior External Examinations: English, Indonesian/Malaysian, Chinese, Ancient History, Modern History, Geography,

Economics, Legal Studies, Logic, Mathematics A, Mathematics B, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Accounting, Visual Art, Drama, Australian Constitution - Spring Extension, Australian Constitution - Spring Standard. A total of 908 candidates nominated to sit examinations in 2003, and 751 actually sat. Some students sat more than one examination. Results for 1288 External Senior Examinations were certificated.

Certificate of Post-Compulsory School Education (CPCSE)

The Certificate of Post-compulsory School Education (CPCSE) records the learning achievements of students with special needs. In many cases these students were not eligible to receive the Senior Certificate. Students are eligible to receive the CPCSE if they have at least 12 years of schooling and are identified by the school as having an impairment or difficulties in learning that are not primarily due to socioeconomic, cultural and/or linguistic factors. In 2003 all CPCSE students who completed some form of VET had their achievements reported on their Senior Certificate; incomplete VET was reported on their CPCSEs. The CPCSE adds to the suite of certificates the QSA issues, and ensures that the educational achievement of all students can be recorded.

In 2003, 233 students from 79 schools received the CPCSE³.

3From 2008, the title of the CPCSE will change to Queensland Certificate of Individual Achievement (QCIA). The first QCIAs will be available to young people in 2008.

Table 2: External Examinations

Gender 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Nominations

Female 585 463 447 511 400

Male 483 357 395 428 297

All 1068 820 842 939 697

Certificated

Female 884 700 572 703 620

Male 739 561 563 645 516

All 1623 1261 1135 1348 1136

Certificates with

external result(s) Female 479 383 353 435 346

Male 385 289 316 346 253

All 864 672 669 781 599

Table 3: CPCSEs issued Gender 2002 2003

Male 92 130

Female 83 105

All 175 235

Contact Us

For further information about this document contact:

Analysis and Evaluation Unit Queensland Studies Authority Phone: (07) 3864 0256

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (07) 3864 0299;fax: (07) 3221 2553;email: [email protected];website: www.qsa.qld.edu.au

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